Summary: In a span of just 3 decades, email has fallen from its lofty position as the most irreplaceable, efficient, enterprise-wide internal communication tool, leaving most organizations desperate for eliminating email overload.

The digital workplace is evolving into an intelligent workplace — and this change can't come fast enough. Technology continues to develop at a rapid pace and we are all struggling on a daily basis to find and digest massive amounts of information.

3. Analytics For Everything By 2020, 85% of new operation-based technical positions hires will be screened for analytical and artificial intelligence skills – IDC In 2018 we can see a majority of enterprises focusing more on application of analytics across multiple domains.

The use of virtual file-sharing platforms like Dropbox, Google Docs, and others has become ubiquitous in business, academic, and other settings. But is your team using such collaborative platforms as effectively as they could be?

As online collaboration tools continue to permeate the enterprise, intranet managers need to make their intranet the hub of internal collaboration or risk irrelevancy. Collaboration means working together to get something done.

Run a Google search for what is a digital workplace? and you will uncover over six million results. What you won’t find however is a consistent definition. As the popularity of the term digital workplace has increased, so too have the interpretations.

Today’s modern workplace offers a plethora of collaboration tools, as we shift away from face-to-face interactions and increasingly towards digital connections. But making these work has always been complicated by:

We all know how hard it can be to get the funding needed to improve your intranet or digital workplace. Each year, a businesses case is required, which may be a lengthy and painful document to complete.

Are you trying to decide where to start with the new collaboration tools you just acquired? Here’s a tip: don't start with you, or the other folks in the head office. Instead, seek opportunities at the front line, or out in the field. The market for enterprise collaboration tools is heating up.

There’s nothing like a seasonal break to get people thinking about quitting their company and joining the gig economy. This mode of work is growing vigorously, at a rate of roughly 27 percent more than payroll employees according to one U.S. study.

Every year begins will predictions that intranets (as well as email) are finished. Then, as the year progresses, both digital workplace services continue to evolve and improve, ignoring the predictors of their decline.

You are an outstanding manager running your team very well. However, you think your performance can be better if some of the obstacles can be overcome. One of them is failure in exchanging information.

When people ask me what in my experience is the biggest barrier to innovation in our workplaces, it almost always falls back to workplace fears: Fears about expectations, fears of being seen, fears about making a mistake.

Arguably the digital workplace isn’t new, per se. We've been digital for quite some time. Over the years, the adoption curve has remained the same every time we roll out a new technology: a large spike in usage up front, followed by a plummet and then a gradual decline.

Clearly, nurses need a mobile app for team communication, and the NHS doesn’t give them one. I understand Bupa uses Jive. Nurses aren’t the only people to use the consumer Facebook platform for professional communication.

Content is still king. If there was one over-arching lesson from the 2017 Digital Workplace & Intranet Global Forum is that content, in all its forms, should be the apple of any digital workplace manager’s eye.

I’m typing this in a nearly silent coworking space. All of us here at HBR are intently focused on our computer screens. The tap-tap of our fingers on keyboards, occasional rustle of paper, and clink of a coffee mug landing on a desk are the sounds of work.

Companies that get digital leadership right are 38% more likely to report strong revenue and profit growth, and 24% more likely to have satisfied employees.1 However, most companies lack digital capability in the boardroom and many employees think their leaders lack sufficient skills.

Companies will effectively navigate the challenges posed by digital disruption if they look at them as organizational and managerial problems, rather than technical ones. Many treatments of digital disruption regard the rapid pace of technological innovation as the key problem facing organizations.

The growing number of remote workers means it's more important than ever before to get collaboration right. Creating seamless communications across offices and departments — regardless of employees’ locations — is critical to identifying and achieving common business goals and objectives.

Summary: Often, the first question we receive from our customers is ‘What does an intranet cost?’ We get it, ‘non-essential’ software takes effort to show management the real ROI. You have budgets to follow, and a boss to report to.

Summary: What is Intranet? This is a question we often receive from prospects who recognize the problems they face in the workplace but aren’t exactly sure how to solve them. That’s where Intranet Connections comes to play.

I cannot think of a digital workplace tool, since SharePoint, that has received so much attention and ink than Slack. It’s very popular, widespread and extremely hip, particularly with the media and technology pundits.

We all use navigation systems whenever we use the web, but few of us really think about what we’re seeing. We seldom consider how analogies are applied to these systems to help us understand intuitively how they work.

Increasingly, I hear IT departments refer to their Office 365 programmes as being a ‘digital workplace’ initiative. Similarly, in my research for SharePoint Intranets In-a-box, I noticed several vendors calling their products a ‘digital workplace’.

What are the key trends that shapes the digital workplace? The previous month has taken me around Europe to meet with practitioners and take an active part in the discussions that are having a big impact for everyone in the workplace.

The social intranet has been quietly evolving. And counter to the predictions of some who dismiss the phenom as merely a fad (one naive “intranet consultant” decried it as a fad at a New York conference, to my face), social is becoming more and more pervasive.

It hasn’t always been easy to build an intranet within SharePoint. Microsoft itself has been loath to use the word ‘intranet’ until recently. In response, many Microsoft partners have released ready-made intranet add-ons to SharePoint to fill the gaps.

A great digital workplace needs to deliver an engaging employee experience. Organisations already prioritise the customer experience, and digital workplace teams must make the employee experience as high a priority.

Knowing which workplace communication tool to use - and when - can be overwhelming. It seems fashionable these days to blame email for our communication woes. After all, critics say it’s a time suck, makes us less productive, costs companies money and even makes us sick.

This month, I launched a new blog post series titled,The Digital Prairie. Since 2012, I’ve been writing about the digital revolution and how technology is disrupting every part of our global economy and society. The Digital Prairie exemplifies the future and how we are redesigning our world.

First, what is an intranet? In simple terms, it’s an internal website that helps employees get stuff done. An intranet plays many roles inside an organization—it’s a website, communications channel, and collaboration platform.

Going mobile have been the big initiative for the past couple of years with apps for work arriving on many smartphones, including Google Suite, Microsoft Office, LinkedIn, Slack, WhatsApp and much more.

Once you have a grip on the nature of the collaboration involved, it becomes easier to work out the right tool for the job. For example, document-based collaboration can work well for an Expert Process so long as the documents are adapted to the particular need.

In our first post on Workplace by Facebook, Sharon shared a whistle-stop tour of the basics of the system. It’ll be very familiar – it’s the Facebook system that 1.5billion of us use regularly, but filled with the enterprise content and, eventually, apps.

You and your team have spent long hours configuring, organizing, and testing your new social intranet. After careful planning and lots of work, you’re just about ready to roll the intranet out across your entire organization. But questions still remain.

Employees may waste too much time on the intranet; social media wastes time; the Internet is a productivity drain. These are common refrains and concerns expressed by many executives, albeit the less educated ones, generally of an older generation, nearing or past retirement.

[Note: This is a bloggy written version of a talk I gave in November 2016 at KMWorld's annual knowledge management conference in Washington D.C. If you happen to be reading this before December 15, 2016, it will also be the topic of discussion for the weekly #esnchat on Twitter.

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